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NRC Convair 580 Bulk Parameters

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ICICLE

Summary

Bulk microphysical parameters from the NRC Convair 580 flights conducted during the ICICLE (In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment) project out of Rockford Illinois. The data are in NetCDF format.

Archive note

8 Oct 2021: PI Alexei Korolev sent an email saying this dataset can be considered final.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/R6A2-G92Q-CF0S
Data Quality	final
Versions	0.1 (2020-05-29) 0.2 (2020-08-12): Added new metadata in NetCDF files, Added Flights 10 and 11, and Updated readme documentation. 0.4 (2020-10-30): New Manual Phase variable, new composite values from ice/liquid phase separated distributions, new IWC/LWC products from ECCC Nevzorov, and new image recognition from HVPS. (Only the current version of the data is available to order. If you have questions about a prior version, please email us.)
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Related projects	ICICLE: In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	1 second
Language	English
Categories	Aircraft
Platforms	NRC Convair 580
Instruments	2DC - Two-Dimensional Optical Array Cloud Probe 2DS - 2D-Stereo Particle Probe CDP - Cloud Droplet Probe Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe - FSSP HVPS-3 - High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer 3 RICE - Rosemount Icing Detector
GCMD Science Keywords	ABSORPTION CLOUD DROPLET CONCENTRATION/SIZE CLOUD DROPLET DISTRIBUTION CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE HYDROMETEORS PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION SCATTERING Expand keywords
Documentation	ICICLE_BulkParameters_v0_4_metadata.txt [15 KiB]
Related links	supercedes: 570.011: NRC Convair 580 1D Size Distribution Data info: ICICLE Data Policy homepage: ICICLE Home Page info: ICICLE Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2019-01-18 18:00:00
End datetime	2019-03-08 18:00:00

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.355, Minimum (South) Latitude: 39.329
Minimum (West) Longitude: -91.984, Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.595

Primary point of contact information

EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>

Additional contact information

author: Alexei Korolev <alexei.korolev@canada.ca>
author: Ivan Heckman <ivan.heckman@canada.ca>

Citation

Korolev, A., Heckman, I. 2020. NRC Convair 580 Bulk Parameters. Version 0.4. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/R6A2-G92Q-CF0S. Accessed 23 Jan 2026.

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